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# Staff Software Engineer - AI Apps

- **Company:** Skillsearch Limited
- **Location:** London, UK (Remote available)
- **Contract:** Permanent contract
- **Skills:** Application Programming Interfaces (APIs), Artificial Intelligence, Backend, GPT
- **Published:** September 15, 2026
- **Apply:** https://www.collegerecruiter.com/job/2882076894-staff-software-engineer-ai-apps

## About the Role

* Significant experience leading application or product engineering for complex, production systems
 * Strong backend engineering fundamentals - you've built and shipped systems people actually use
 * Experience building the systems around AI - orchestration, tool use, state, retries, and failure handling - not just calling an API and rendering the output
 * Comfortable across backend and client platforms, with deep expertise in at least one
 * Strong technical judgement - you make good calls with incomplete information and own the outcome
 * Zero-to-one experience - you know what pre-launch engineering actually feels like

Who this isn't for

Engineers who want to manage tickets and attend standups. People whose AI experience begins and ends with wrapping a ChatGPT endpoint. If your production systems don't exist outside of a demo, this isn't the role.

The rest

Everything else - who they are, who's behind it, comp and equity detail - is a call.

## Description

* Founding-team Staff Engineer role at a well-funded stealth AI company
 * Product: AI-native productivity - starting with email, expanding into notes, tasks, calendar
 * Own the full engineering layer: backend systems, APIs, and client applications
 * The hard part isn't the AI - it's making it reliable at scale
 * US$100M initial funding, internally backed, no VC pressure
 * Cash + meaningful founding-team equity
 * Fully remote


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